Reducing lag

Potato-VS- · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:30 am Post subject: Reducing lag

I have a wackload of lag in DoD when I join - about 1500. I know this ISNT right since I have a good VC and highspeed internet but how could I possibly reduce my lag to something reasonable?

Ten · Registered User Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 636

Are you sure you have ever application closed before you play? Kazaa, IE, MSN, AIM among other things can easily screw up your lag.

You may also want to check and see if Steam is downloading CS: CZ by checking the activity tab. Irregular lag (if your lag was reasonable before) is usally a product of other Internet processes occurring at the same time.

Blown · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:45 am Post subject:

in console type rate. Usually for broadband 7500-10000 is a good number

cl_updaterate 20-40 play with it little by little.

Rate will make the biggest impact, steam decided that everyone should have crappy rate settings a while back. Tons of ppl had crap pings cause of it.

DJ George · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 12:29 pm Post subject:

check what steam has your connection set as and make sure it has not set you to 14.4 modem
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Stevo · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:15 pm Post subject:

Potato-VS- · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:54 pm Post subject:

Hmm my ping is about 57 now but I still get massive lag spikes when I fire, when a point is captured and when I enter into a large scale conflict between both sides....

Blown · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject:

Simpleman · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject:

I have my rate at 8900 seems to work good for DSL also might want to check and see if your Vsync is off to see if that helps and what VC do you have if it is a ATI as sugetsed to me by Blown make sure your ATI npatch is set to 0 in your consol.
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Potato-VS- · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 3:30 pm Post subject:

Could someone come online and test with my on TV 7 by any chance? Im trying to figure out if its when other people are on the server or not...

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Potato-VS- · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject:

It seems that I get lag wheneer I play when theres about 15+ players on the server... I dunno why this is, with a couple it works fine but once the player count gets high I get alot of lag... Anyone know how to fix this?

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:36 pm Post subject:

Ten · Registered User Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 636

Bah, I moved recently and my connection isn't nearly as good (I get 14.0 KB/sec downloads :\ ). I've also noticed that few players present in a server will give me not necessarily better ping numbers - just better hit detection and less lag. Well, I guess it fluctuates more when there are more players.

Is there anything I can do since my specs are fine (1.5 Ghz 512 RAM 64 GPU) but my connection is basically the worst broadband on Earth? I've dropped about .10 off of my K : D since moving, I'm quite saddened by it.

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Phoenix · Registered User Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 40

The only computer hardware that should have much of anything to do with your ping is your NIC or Modem depending on your internet connection.